Absorbable nutrition simply means eating good food that’s good for you – all the time.  Food that, from the moment you put it in your mouth, really works for you. It is immediately being transformed into vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and fibre that your body needs and can use. There are so many rules and laws about how to eat, when to eat, why to eat, what mix to eat, etc etc etc. that we spend our days in total confusion. Then when we add to that the various ‘thoughts’ on how food should be taken to be of most benefit to you and your body, we get even more confused.  Much of this is because there is such a wide gulf between what we were taught to eat in what I will call ‘Old theory’ and what we now know to be good for us in what I will call ‘Nosh Theory’.

OLD THEORY

This is based on various ideas that have now become accepted wisdom such as ‘Cow’s milk is needed in a healthy diet because it provides calcium’, or ‘Meat is the best source of protein’ or ‘bread provides energy and protein’.

And this is despite scientific evidence producing result after result showing that after the age of about 5, over 70%   of people cannot break down the lactose in milk because their bodies no longer have the enzyme lactase.  So for them, milk does not provide as much nutritional value as believed.

Then you have people living on raw food diets and using colonics and other tools to show conclusively that meat and flesh products literally rot in the intestine – so how can they be good for you?

Imagine being told categorically that there is no evidence that organic food has more nutritional value than non-organic?  That doesn’t even sound right.

Now I am not advocating turning into an orange robe wearing, OM chanting raw food vegan – although that may well be good for you.

I am suggesting a few, relatively painless changes to your daily routine which just require a little thinking about to initiate, but then pay huge dividends very, very quickly.

 NOSH THEORY

Essentially I believe that the food should be organic, freshly bought, seasonal, lightly cooked, and frequently raw.  I also believe that fresh herbs and spices are good for you and that chemicals and preservatives are not.  I believe that some frozen foods, packaged at source are nutritionally better for you than fresh food that has been flown a million miles to get to you in a semi-preserved state – and that goes for locally sourced food too.  Food that has been grown in a smallholding locally to you is better for you than food that has travelled long distances. 

Find out as much as you can where your food comes from and it pays immediate dividends in your health. Food that is freshly made, is always better for you than food that has been sitting around for days bathed in preservatives to keep it ‘fresh’.

All our food is gluten and dairy free, and as much of it is in its natural raw state as is possible to be, whilst producing a good, delicious traditional meal plan. 

We do look at portion sizes but we never, ever look at calories.  What is the point when you can eat a Mars bar, and it could be your entire calorie intake for the day?  It doesn’t make it any better for you if all the calories you eat in a day are made up of ‘bad’ food.  However, if you eat good, natural, green, pure foods, you literally will find it quite hard to overeat.  Your body just gets full faster, as it naturally needs less of it.

And you never need to look at a calorie again.

THE JUICE FAST

At Nosh, many of our clients come to us in a physical state induced by eating according to ‘old theory’ described above. They are tired, sluggish, and often physically overweight. In order to move them forward from there to the newer and higher level of health that they desire, we need to do a number of things. One of the most important of these is to remove the waste that has built up in their body as a consequence of prior eating habits. The Nosh Juice fast was developed as a way of doing that.

Take 4 500ml bottles of Nosh Juice every day for 5 days (that’s 2 litres of juice per day), as a substitute for your normal meals, and watch the transformation of your body occur before your eyes.

THE CONTENTS

The ingredients in the smoothies are rich in minerals, vitamins, antioxidants and chlorophyll and help redress the deficiencies inherent in modern cultivated food due to soil erosion and lack of freshness. Superfoods also help compensate for our bodies’ current lack of efficiency at absorbing nutrients form food. Green Superfoods are very alkalising which is important because a healthy body is in an alkaline state.

RECOMMENDED ADDITIVES

1. Nosh smoothies contain juice, only juice and nothing but the juice. No chemicals and no preservatives. They are not heat treated and they contain no additives.   While, Nosh juices are fabulous alone, we recommend a few additional supplements be added to your smoothies to really skyrocket your results.

Each of the recommended vitamins and minerals are specially selected and work in synergy with the juices to rehydrate, eliminate, heal and rejuvenate the body.

For re-hydration we suggest Pure Synergy Green Superfood Powder as it is simply the best green superfood on the market. Pure Synergy contains 62 of the world’s finest and most potent Superfoods available. For you, this means an ample dose of all those nutrients your body has been craving.

Flax seed, packed with remarkable health benefits, is the ideal dietary supplement to aid in the elimination cycle of your detox. Flax seed oil – the richest plant resource for Omega 3 – sweeps the artery walls ridding them of an undue formation of HDL (bad cholesterol), thus preventing the onset of hypertension, heart disease, and strokes.

Aloe Vera, known for its soothing and healing effects, is also one of the only known natural vegetarian sources of Vitamin B12. It contains many minerals vital to the growth process and healthy function and is a general tonic for the immune system, helping it to fight illness of all kinds.

Acai, loaded with antioxidants, amino acids, essential omegas, fibres and proteins, this little berry works wonders on the body. A few health benefits associated with Acai are increased energy, lower cholesterol, improved immune system and strengthening.

Enjoy the difference this will make in your body.

© 2009 Geeta Sidhu-Robb